“Qui peut vivre sans amour?” Discover or Re-discover Celine’s Fantastic Song

Celine’s powerful third single “Qui peut vivre sans amour?” from her latest album ‘Sans attendre’ is enjoying great success. Get to know a different side of Celine with this dramatic song. Discover or re-discover the fantastic video and read the lyrics (with an English translation). What do you think of video, what do the words mean to you?

Qui peut vivre sans amour? /Who Can Live Without Love?

Love is the very worst of afflictions
It changes the pace, tampers with words
It's worse than being brainwashed

Like an oasis in the desert
It aims to please, we feel its pull
Only to be plunged into hell

Love has no morality
It's a criminal on the run

But who can say
He can live without love
Who?
Who can pretend
he didn't want it
Who?
But who can say
That love just doesn't matter
Who?
It tortures, it devastates
It nails us to the cross
But who can say?

Love does all the dirty work
Stretches pure souls on the rack
Breaks princesses in castles dark

There's never a white flag waving
There is no armistice, no spring
It's war when love comes around

Love leaves you like a battleground
It's like poison in the blood

But who can say
He can live without love
Who?
Who can pretend
he didn't want it
Who?
But who can say
That love just doesn't matter
Who?
It tortures, it devastates
It nails us to the cross
But who can say
He can live without love
Who?

Who can pretend
he didn't want it
Who?
But who can say
That love just doesn't matter
Who?

It wounds us, it caresses us
It keeps us firmly on a leash
But who can say?

(On a leash)

But who can say
He can live without love
Who?
Who can pretend
he didn't want it
Who?
But who can say
That love just doesn't matter
Who?
It tortures, it devastates
It nails us to the cross

(Elodie Hesme)